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It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Herodotus
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This king Sesostris divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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Haste in every business brings failures.
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
Herodotus
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The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.
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Chances rule men and not men chances.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
Herodotus
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The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.
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Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
Herodotus